Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hišćáti
Proto-Indo-Iranian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *h₂i-sḱé-ti, from *h₂eys- (“to wish, desire, seek”) + *-sḱéti. Compare Proto-Slavic *jьskati.
Verb
edit*Hišćáti[1]
Descendants
edit- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hiśćáti
- Proto-Iranian: *Hišáti
- Avestan: 𐬌𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (isaiti)
- →? Proto-Finnic: *iso (see there for further descendants)
- → Pre-Finnic?: *iša
References
edit- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “eṣ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University